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Corey Smith
Customized Self Employment
Corey Smith, Director of Employment Supports, Via of Lehigh Valley
Entrepreneurship as a career choice is an
important employment option for individuals
with disabilities. Self-employment can provide
a customized job overcoming barriers to traditional
employment such as greater flexibility
and income opportunities. Also discussed will
be resource ownership. Using this strategy,
an individual purchases equipment or property
that he or she brings as a "resource" to a paid
job in the community. Case studies providing
strategies and issues of planning and starting
a business will be shared as well as examples
of resource ownership.